Stitchless wallet construction



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ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 19, 1952 UNirsDsTArss PATENT oFi=1cslIi'rancisA. Brady, lCanada-igua, N. Y., assignor to Hickok Manufacturing Company,Inc., Rochester, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application July 29,1949, Serial No. 107,600

3 Claims. (Cl. 150-38) The invention relates to a stitehless valletconstruction.

An object of the present invention is to provide a simple, strong,durable and highly attractive stitchless wallet of practical,inexpensive construction, comprising an outer wall having pocket formingmembers and a separate inner wall confined in position by iiaps offsaidmembers and cooperating therewith to form pockets at the outer face ofthe inner wall, `one of the pockets being equipped with a removable cardcase rpositively secured in position with respect to such pocket formingmember by fastening means carried by one of the covers of the card caseand the Iwallet.

A further object of the invention is to provide a stitchless walletcomprising an outer wall having pocket forming members and a separateinner wall confined in position Within the wallet by flaps of saidmembers and cooperating therewith to form pockets, one of the pocketsbeing provided with a removable card case and the other pocket beingprovided with an insert cooperating with such pocket forming member Ytoprovide adthe end aps with the end portions of the pocket formingmembers.

Another object of the invention is to provide a stitchless wallet havinginner and outer walls and provided with a dividing strip retained inrposition and concealed at the upper portion by top marginal flaps of theouter wall of the wallet to form a concealed compartment especiallyadapted'for holding bills of high denominations, checks, and otherpapers, so that when the wallet is opened only a second bill holdingcompartment designed for holding bills of small vdenomination' isdisclosed to View, said dividing stripvbeing cut away at its uppercorners to afford ready access to the contents of the concealedcompartment to facilitate easy removal of bills or the like.

With the above and other objects in view, thev invention consists in theconstruction and novelv `combination and arrangement of partshereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawingsand pointed out inthe claims hereto appended, vit being understoodwthatvari- 2 ous changes in the form, proportions, and minor details ofconstruction, within the scope ofthe claims, may be resorted to withoutdeparting from the spirit or sacricing any of the advantages of theinvention.

In the drawings: Fig. 1 is an elevation of a stitchless walletconstructed in accordance with this invention and shown in openposition;

Fig. 2 isl a longitudinal sectional view on the line 2 2 ofFig. l; Fig.3 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a transverse A-l ofFigl; i f

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view on the lline 5 5 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 is a plan View of the blank from which the outer wall, the pocketforming members and the naps and taibs are formed;

Fig. 7 is a plan view of the inner wall; Fig. 8 is a plan view of thedividing strip; Fig. 9 is a plan View of one of the reinforcements oithepocket forming members;

Fig. 10 is a plan view of one of the reinforce-l ments of the aps of thepocket forming members;

Fig. 1l is a detailed perspective View of the card case, partially opento show the front and back of the cover and the intermediate leaves;l

Fig. l2 is the blank Vfrom `which the pocket insert is formed;

Fig. 13A is a detail perspective view of the pocket; Y insert, partlyopen to show the front and rearv sides thereof;

Fig. 14 is a detail view of one of. thetranspar-v ent leaves of the cardcase.

In the accompanying drawings, in.y whichj is illustratedthe preferredform of thev invention,l I designates lan oblong outer wallet vwallconstructed of leather or other suitable flexible sheet material andprovided at the bottom with pocketforming members 2 and 3 extendingupwardly inr parallelism with the outer wall and provided atl the top`with flaps 4 and 5 which fold downwardly and inwardly withinv thewallet over anv oblong inner Wall 6.

'Ihe naps are preferably tapered slightly by arranging their edges-.land 8 divergingly at anY inclination, and the outer ends of the aps IlAand 5 are provided with parallel slits 9 forming tongues f i0-, locatedat a point spaced fromthe upper and lower redges of the aps 4 and 5andextending longitudinally of the wallet through vertical, transverseslcts l|- formed Y.in the'endmortions;

sectionalview on the line 3 of the inner wall 6 whereby the inner wallwhich is confined in cooperative relation with the pocket formingmembers by the flaps 4 and 5 is positively Vinterlocked with the flaps.

wise secured to the leaves and to the cover f the card case. The leaves2'I and the inner side 29 of the cover are inserted in the card casereceiving pocket and the outer cover is provided with flaps are providedwith parallel slits I4 corresponding with the tongue forming slits V.9and forming tongue portions I5 which Vreinforce the tongues I0 of theflaps. The portions of the'ilaps above and below the tongues I0 with thecorresponding portions of the reinforcements of the flaps are foldedaround the end portions of the inner wall and adhesively secured to thesame.

The pocket forming members 2 and 3 cooperate with the inner wall toprovide at the outer face of' the inner wall exterior pockets. open attheir inner ends. and having their outer ends closed by end flaps Ioandv I'! which are foldable inwardly over the outer ends of thepocketforming members and are provided with longitudinal dovetailtongues I8 and I9 having their ends cut at an angle to. form inwardlyconverging endV edges andv 2l'. Thertongues I8 and I9V taper inwardlyVand are passed through vertical slits 22 and 23 and as the tongues I8and I9 are of 1 a length greater than the length of the slits 22 and 23,the angularly cut end edges 20 and 2 I project beyond the ends of theslits and positively interlock the tongues I 8'.r andi 91 in the slits22 and 23. The tongues I8 and I9, after being passed through the-slits2'2 and 23, extend outwardly with respect to the slits and are locatedwholly within the contourof the narrow marginal end flaps I6 and I'Iwhich. extend" upwardly from the lower edge of the outer wall to theupper edgeof the inner wall. The slits22 and 23 are arranged closelyadjacent the outer side edges of the pocket forming members` and whenthe end flaps are folded over the outer side edges ofthe pocket formingmembers, theyL extend only to the slits and they provide a narrow edgingat the ends ofthe wallet extending from the lower edge of the outer wallto the upper edge of the inner wall. l Y

The end flaps `I Gland I'land the tongues I 8 andr IS are-adhesivelysecured to vthe contiguous portionsrof the wallet. The wallet is foldedtransversely in the conventional manner andV whenf'oldedlthe pocketsformed by the pocket forming members and'theinner wall are arrangedwithinY the wallet. 'I'he outer wall is providedl at the bottom at thecenter with aap 24which is folded inwardly against the inner face oftheouter wall andfisfadhe'sively secured to the same to reinforce thecentral portion off thelower edge of the'outer,l wall at1th'el'spa'cebetween the openinner ends*Y othepockets. Y p 1 1 The-'pocket formedby-the pocket forming-mem-v ber '23a/nd the inner wall 6 receives aremovable cardl'case; 25 consisting lof a cover: '2li` anda plu-`-`ralityl'r of leaves? 21! arranged 'between' the outer andinner sidesZtl-land -29'lof the cover; 'Ifhelcover preferably consists of an oblongsheet ofleatherV orvothersui-table flexible :matc'eria-l:whichV is-folded transverselyfto form' the'louter and-inner sides` b *conf 70'stifucted? of.' 'any' -sui-'tallematerial, prefrablyf consistoif"sh'eetsfofL Celluloid or. similar tra`ns2- -l parent-amaterial, and areprovided at their-inner verticaledgesiwith 'strips Silvi-0f fabric"orffot-her4 suitable materialwhicfiarevadhesively or ethereportion ofthe card case is closed. Instead of a snap fastener, any other suitablefastening means may be employed for securing the outer side of the coverto the end nap I6.

TheA end member 3 is provided with a slit 33 extending from the lowerportion of the end member to the-upper portion thereof and terminatingshort of the top and bottom ofthe same and removably receiving an insert34 consisting ofa substantially oblong sheet-of leather or othersuitable flexible material folded transverselyinY its center to form twosides 35. The side portions ofi` the" insert forming sheet are arrangedata slight angle to each other, as clearly illustrated in Fig.. 12 ofthe drawings. The insert 34V extends` through the slit 33-of the pocketformingmember` 3Y and it projects exteriorly beyond the slit' and.provides additional pockets, and' it is reversible. toform aifurtheradditional pocket. Also-whenr the insert is arranged in its normalposition,as` 35 The inner wall i-is provided at its upper andi loweredges withvcentral extensions 36 fand1 31;v thel upper extension isfolded flat against th'ef inner face ofthe inne-r wall'and pro-videsareinforcement at the central portion where it -isi usuallyv grasped toopen Vthe wallet toV afford ac-v cess to the bill receivingcompartrnen'ts;v hereinafter described andy located .betiiveen thevinner andv outer wallsfof the wallet The extension- 31'atthe'- :bottomof the inner wall is" folded.' on itselfandfproivides `a centraldownWardlyproject# ing pori-,ion` 3'3" which extends below thef lower"edges ofi the end portionsof the'innerl wall, butthe bottom' extensionmay be folded completely' againstv the nnerface of the end -wall in thevsame` manner as thetopsextension 'so that the' lower edge of the innerwall will be straighten'vr continuous like its -upper edge.

Within thelwallet ybetweenthe inner and router"v wallsis arranged adividing strip 39' c'onsisting offenv oblongisheet of-fexible materialhavin'gfitsrf upper marginal portion 40 bent or folded f down# wardlyand -adhesively secured to the rea-rA face* ofi the dividing-strip-toreinforce theY same.A The upper corners-of the'dividin'gstrip -arecutaway? atI and'fthe central portion-of thelo-weredge* is freoessedor.l cut' away atl' 42 lto span 'the-bottomcentral'tab-'M'othe louter:wall. The lowervc'or-`4 ners of 'thedividing strip are Valso -cutawayat#sides off" thecentralcutjawayfportion -42is'ead nesivelyl secured to theinner* andouteriwaillsfat tlleflowerv edge portions -thereof..

The: dividing stripI dividesrthe spacer-betweentheinn'en and outer"wallsllinto Atwo billfreceivinglf compartments and! thecompartmentibetweenf theid=ividir1g '.stiipend the :outer constitutesa secret billcompartment as the upper edge of the dividing strip is engaged andconcealed by upper flaps 45 formed by an upper marginal extension of thelouter wall. The upper margin-al extension is cut away at its center tolform the two top flaps 45 and is folded downwardly and inwardly withinthe Wallet and is slit at 46 at the outer ends of the iiaps to providetabs 47 which lare folded downwardly and inwardly and adhesively securedto the inner face of the outer wall. The slits 45 do"not extend theentire width of the aps 45 which thereby have their upper portionsconnected with the tabs 41 and are r-etained in position within thewallet by said tabs as the portions connecting the flaps 45 with thetabs 4l resist any tendency of the flaps 45 to move 'away from aposition contiguous to the outer wall. When the wallet is opened and theinner and o-uter walls spread, only the bill receiving compartment whichis located between the dividing strip and the inner Wall rwill beexposed as the upper portion of the dividing strip will be concealedbehind the downwardly folded top flaps 45 of the outer wall. The cutaway portions 4I at the upper corners of the dividing strip expose thecorner portions of |bills contained within the secret compartment andfacilitate ready removal of bills or other papers from such compartmentwhen the flaps 45 are raised to expose the contents of the secretcornpartment. I claim:

` card case and the other part on the marginal end concealing theunderlying pocket forming mem- 1. A stitchless wallet comprising anouter wall, l

an inner wall extending from one end of the wallet to the other, pocketforming members connected with and extending upwardly from the loweredge of the outer wall to the upper edge of the inner wall and arrangedexteriorly thereof to form pockets exteriorly of said inner wall, saidpocket forming members being provided with naps folded over the upperedge of the inner wall and extending downwardly at the inner facethereof and confining the inner wall in the wallet and securing thepocket forming members to the inner wall, said pocket forming memberseach being provided adjacent its outer side edge withv a straightmarginal slit, narrow marginal end flaps connected with and extendingfrom the end portions of the outer wall and folded over the side edgesof the pocket. forming members and having tongues extending through themarginal slits in the pocket forming members and securing the end flapsto said members, the naps of the pocket forming members and the end apsof the outer wall cooperating to hold the inner wall in a fixed positionagainst movement longitudinally and vertically, and a card caseextending into one of the pockets formed by the pocket forming membersand having an outer cover portion overlying the contiguous pocketforming member and concealing the same, and a two-part fastener havingone :part mounted on the outer cover portion of the ber.

2. In a stitchless wallet comprising inner and outer walls, the outerwall being provided at its upper edge at its inner face with a narrowdownwardly extending longitudinal nap and with top end tongues rigidlysecured in face-to-face relation with the inner face of the outer walland integrally connected with the top marginal flap adjacent to theupper edge of the outer wall and resisting the opening of the top flap,and a dividing strip consisting of an oblong sheet of flexible materialarranged within the Wallet between the said outer wall and the top flapand cut away at its upper corners at said top tongues and forming aconcealed pocket, and said dividing strip being connected at its loweredge portion to the lower edge portion of the front wall.

3. In a stitchless wallet comprising inner and outer Walls, the outerwall being provided at its upper edge at its inner face with a narrowdownwardly extending longitudinal ap and with top end tongues rigidlysecured in face-to-face relation with the inner face of the outer walland integrally connected with the top marginal flap adjacent to theupper edge of the outer Wall and resisting the opening of the top flap,and a dividing strip consisting of an oblong sheet of flexible materialarranged Within the Wallet between the said outer wall and the top flapand cut away at its upper corners at said top tongues and forming aconcealed pocket, said dividing strip being also cut away at its lowercorners and provided at its lower edge port1on with spaced extensionssecured to the inner and outer Walls of the wallet.

FRANCIS A. BRADY.

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